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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by slededit on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @03:37PM (#16539640)
Radioshack sold a voice recognition chip in the 80s[1] that was a simple 8-bit microcontroller. If you are willing to slip on the accuracy and false positives you can do recognition with very little computation.

[1] http://21stdigitalhome.blogspot.ca/2013/06/vcp200-voice-reco...

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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by skjerns on Thursday March 08, 2018 @03:23AM (#16543118)
"80s" - "voice recognition" - "accuracy" - which doesnt fit?
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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by gcb0 on Thursday March 08, 2018 @12:20PM (#16545868)
your wrong preconceptions don't fit :)

the downside was power usage. Motorola made one that was power efficient, used by nokia in the 90s and its pretty much the same chip in google's phone line today (just even more power efficient).

division is under lenovo now

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